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Post by hannah on May 8, 2007 20:59:18 GMT -5
I really liked this episode.  I just did... it was so much more better then I thought it was going to be. It was a lot more emotional than trashy. I was intrigued. It was also humorous at many parts yet took the issue pretty seriously (most of the time). The twists fit very well with the story. It wasn't a trashy copycat. But the seizures annoyed the hell out of me!  Jeez, there was like three! |
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Post by Cassie on May 8, 2007 21:26:27 GMT -5
It's too soon for me.
I really wish they would wait a year or two, before taking a crime that is ripped right from the headlines and making it into an episode.
However, I thought Kristy Swanson, did a marvelous job as the Anna Nicole clone, Her voice, sounded just like her. I also enjoyed the interview with the two sisters, and their cats...... Logan's gift watch......And I did like the ending when the sister held the baby over the rail,....now..that was ripped right from the headlines, but it was what 5 or 6 years ago, that Michael Jackson pulled that stunt.
Ok.... I really feel that the quality of the show gets lost in the sensationalism of a crime that is less then 6 months old.
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Post by hannah on May 8, 2007 21:52:11 GMT -5
Yes Cassie, marvelous, marvelous job she did. I sympathized for her in a way. Hmmm... I didn't think think they were pulling a Michael Jackson. He didn't do it to deliberately threaten the child... I watched the Micheal Jackson documentary (where you learn a lot more about him and the story, sad background life, etc) and it was more of a lion king thing. Like, "welcome to the world king." But I don't know, maybe thats what it was.  I wish they waited too, but how long did they have? I think CI handled it better than the other Law and Orders would have, at least.  |
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Post by drsues on May 8, 2007 22:19:24 GMT -5
I was pleasantly surprised as the treatment given this story. I also felt that this story "fit" Logan and Wheeler. It was a pretty good episode.
(and I thought of Mikey Jackson immediately when I saw the baby near the edge, not just after being dangled over it..)
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Post by Techguy on May 8, 2007 23:52:15 GMT -5
Ho hum Yawn Zzzzzzz
I don't feel like copying and pasting, so just like last week see Todd Thatcher's TVGuide review.
I agree with TT, I don't like anything in this episode either. Not only shouldn't it have been made this soon, it shouldn't have been made at all. I didn't give a rat's patootie about the real Anna Nicole story so this fictionalized ripped-off-from-the-headlines is a waste of film and my time.
Like Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe were last week, Chris Noth and Julianne Nicholson appear equally bored, tired, and very flat, almost as if someone had given them some very bad news and they were going through the motions just to go on with the show until hiatus. Peter Bogdanovich looks like he's been preserved in formaldehyde and let out of his jar for a few sleepwalking scenes, which is what he seemed to be doing anyway.
Kristy Swanson and David Cross did the best they could with what they were given, which wasn't much. The only characters I wish would have had more screen time were the Hudson sisters who really belonged in another episode entirely as theirs was the only scenes with life. Oh, and more dogs and cats because, well, they're dogs and cats. Anything but an Anna Nicole clone and her satellites re-creating a train wreck.
I hope this is the last "ripped-from-the-headlines" I see for a LONG time.
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Post by Metella on May 9, 2007 6:32:43 GMT -5
I was also at rat patootie level on the real Anna story; but I didn't mind it as a ripped starting point & the plot on this one wasn't too bad.
I do think the dectives looked tired & at 1/2 speed & 1/2 engaged. Who can blame them?
The son was the most energetic character & too bad he wasn't around for the whole show. The "evil" sister didn't make me believe.
Better than Last Week - for me - I have nothing good to say, I have nothing more bad to say.
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Post by Cassie on May 9, 2007 9:42:19 GMT -5
Yes Cassie, marvelous, marvelous job she did. I sympathized for her in a way. Hi Holly, I am assuming your having sympathy for Anna Nicole, or are you talking about Kristy Swanson? Would you like to share? I too feel for Anna Nicole. I was never a fan of her or her reality show. I saw a woman, who had an innocence, and people took advantage of it. She was easily led, sure she had a responsibility too. So did the ones who took advantage of her. I wish they didn't have Kristy Swanson look like the chunky chick, cause I feel that is a little insult to injury to the late Anna Nicole. She did lose a lot of weight before her death. ETA: I feel they made Anna Nicole's character more a "caricature" then a "real person" |
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Post by Sirenna on May 9, 2007 10:02:06 GMT -5
I liked it. Not enough to rave about it like in 'Brother's Keeper' but still much better than most this season and much better than i was expecting. I didn't like Kristy Swanson's take on Anna Nicole. Anna, after the death of her son, was the saddest person I've ever seen. My heart reached out to her for the strength of the blow she took when he died. She really seemed to struggle to find the strength to go on. That is someone who really loved.  Kristy played her like a bimbo - the way she's always portrayed by the media without any reference in her performance to a woman who'd recently lost someone dear to her; who'd lost possibly the only person she truly loved, for instance the scene where she appropriates Logan's watch. That could have be so much better if she'd tapped into real emotion rather than just caricature. I loved the first scene with Wheeler, Logan and the ME at the morgue -very witty dialogue, yet moving the plot along. |
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Post by mikeyrocks on May 9, 2007 10:09:52 GMT -5
Yes BOMBSHELL definitely had a ROCKETMAN feel to it!!
A decently entertaining episode BUT nothing to write home about!
I also thought that Kristy Swanson played Anna Nicole abit too bimbo like - I think in reality Anna's life was incredibly tragic - the episode would have been better if Swanson had shown that as well.
The old sisters were a hoot though - When Bessie ( the older one ) - said that the cat liked Logan because of his MUSK - was she hitting on him LOL!!
Oh and the first scene with Logan, Wheeler and Rodgers - anything with more Rodgers is TOPS in my book.
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Post by ragincajun on May 9, 2007 10:19:36 GMT -5
The only thing I really enjoyed about last nights episode is when my daughter found out it was about Anna Nicole she decided to join me in watching the episode, lol. She had been following the story on the internet, but I still had to point out the differences in the tv story and the real story.
I felt so sorry for the little dog, he must have known something for the sister to put him to sleep. And Logan giving and then leaving without his watch, did he figure she would die soon and he would get it back? He could have said no, it wasn't a gift, seems the watch was valuable since it wasn't made anymore.
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Post by Sirenna on May 9, 2007 10:43:03 GMT -5
The widowed sisters hitting on Logan was hilariously creepy. They reminded me of the sisters in the movie: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?The scene where Anna Nicole's character goes to the balconey window and starts to lose it is a scene that could have been better done. If it was shown first, subtly, as if she was just trying to open it to let in some fresh air without the wailing. Then, finding it locked, and really trying to open it with more determination because she actually wants out of there. Then the caretaker and her boyfriend subtly moving her away, making us, the viewers, realise, she's actually trying to commit suicide. That would be one way of adding a bit more layer to the scene. I'm still not sure why her boyfriend felt the need to kill her son though. If she really loved him, he could have still had access to her money ie by marriage or by common-law
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Post by NikkiGreen on May 9, 2007 10:45:03 GMT -5
Fairly decent episode for a lackluster, unoriginal storyline.
Boy, those Carradines sure do off-kilter well. ;D First Robert. Then Martha. Now Ever. She was good as the sister.
ETA: The first thing that came to my mind when I saw those elderly sisters was the Baldwin sisters (TheWaltons) with the whole "papa" thing.
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Post by nwchimom on May 9, 2007 12:25:33 GMT -5
When Jolene handed baby Ava to Wheeler on the balcony, Wheeler had a tear rolling down her cheek. Huh? Where'd that come from? Setting up a pregnancy, perhaps?
BTW, the other crazy cat sister was played by Jill Larson, who did a turn as Opal on All My Children about 20 years ago (ok, so I watched it in college).
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Post by Cassie on May 9, 2007 12:33:09 GMT -5
LOL!! Thanks Nwchion, You gave me reason to watch it again! I too loved Opal from AMC. That was a long time ago, and to think her daughter Jenny Gardner, (Kim Delaney) was in last weeks episode of SVU  |
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Post by madger on May 9, 2007 13:14:19 GMT -5
Over all, it was okay, not as bad as I feared, not as good as it could have been.
One thing is to use a headline as a jumping board for a story, but show a little imagination, for Pete's sake.
And did anyone catch Kathleen Chalfant (the mother in Smothered) as one of the sisters? I would have preferred to see an episode about them. ;D
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